"...I will dim the lights." Usagi jumped almost clear off her seat as the lights went out. The flickering of the fire, being the only source of light in the small Divination classroom, enthralled her momentarily, but she quickly shook off the trance as Professor Trelawney launched into an explanation of Mars' current position in the universe. Usagi easily tuned the meanderings out and focused her attention elsewhere in the room.

Harry, she knew, was still upset with her. Though she'd been sure he would have cooled down by now, he seemed to be holding the grudge longer than anticipated. Helios, too, had been avoiding her ever since she'd met up with him in the library. Apparently he didn't know what to do either and couldn't break the news.

Currently, the emerald-eyed hero was snoozing with his head on the windowsill, mouth twitching every few seconds. She momentarily envied his position away from the intoxicating fumes the hovered over the class, but soon let go of the jealousy when she realized that he was suffering from a nightmare, a nightmare that seemed to be getting worse.

Suddenly, Usagi jolted upward from her seat, causing it to topple over. A deep tingling sensation ran through her spine and she shivered. Her mind seemed to split in pain as images flashed through her mind. 'Blood, everywhere, and oh so much death. Scarlet smeared on the sidewalks and the streets, but worst of all on her hands and her arms and her torso. All over her, even in her hair, was blood and vomit that she couldn't contain after witnessing such a massacre. Blood red eyes, eyes the same color as the sticky liquid that stained everything around her.'

"Dearest Princess, do you really think you can defend Harry Potter? Why, you couldn't even protect your friends." The voice, low and seething like a serpent, mocked her. She was in a room, dark and musty that looked like it hadn't been occupied until very recently, with wooden floors, a single lounge chair facing away from her, a burning fireplace and a large snake curled up on the floor. There was a bundle that resembled a man huddled in the corner, sobbing, but she paid no heed to him, her eyes fixed on the cushioned chair.

"What makes you suffer so, Serenity, that you would surrender your body to me and let me kill you so easily?" He chuckled, and Usagi groaned as her brain cracked open again, and images of herself trying to fight off Lee and Harry in the girls' dormitories flashed through her mind, trying to get her hungry hands on the knife once more. Another memory of her talking to Lee in a similar state, and then her eyes found the room once more.

"That was you." She said in disbelief. He laughed a high-pitched, sinister laugh that could not resemble mirth in any sense of the word. Usagi shivered despite herself, but she held her ground firmly.

"Well, yes and no. I did control your actions, Princess, but only because you let me. I'd venture to say you begged me to take you, because you were hurting so much there." Usagi cried out in pain as she felt her heart constrict tightly, and she dropped to her knees. It subsided quickly, and she gulped oxygen into her lungs while he laughed again.

"You're so weak, Princess, and so is Harry Potter. Both of you are so pathetic and easily manipulated. It's sad to think that the whole wizarding world is depending on that wretched boy to save them all, when he cannot even save himself.

"The same goes for you. The whole world depended on Sailor Moon to ward off evil, and then what happens? You let them down! So will Harry, Princess, just you wait. There is no hope for your pitiable world, because heroes are easily broken." He cackled with pure glee. Tears welled up in her eyes, but she gulped them down.

"You're wrong. I will defeat you, even if it takes my life. Harry is stronger than you think, and I am too. YOU'RE WRONG!" She screamed at the back of the chair.

"Such words of bravado, but only wasted breath. Even as you speak you're proving my point. This is just a warning, Princess. I'm coming for you, and I will finish what I started." The chair turned. The last thing she saw before she blacked out screaming were one fiery set of blood-red eyes.

"Usagi!" She automatically shot into alertness, but found she couldn't move at all because some unknown force was holding her down. She screamed and struggled against the bondage, her eyes blurred past distinguished vision. She felt hands on each side of her face, and she tried to jerk her head away, but it was held firmly in place.

"Usagi stop." The voice said feebly, and she almost felt herself crash back down to earth. She opened her eyes wide until she could see the familiar curtains of the hospital wing around her bed, the form of Madam Pomfrey off to the side with her wand out, some sort of golden rope coming from it, and the worried eyes of Lee staring back at her.

"He...he's going to kill me and Harry both." She croaked with her voice raw and scratchy. Madam Pomfrey flicked her wand and the rope disappeared. Her limbs free, Usagi sat up and swung her legs over the side of the infirmary bed. Lee halted her before she could go any further.

"Whoa now, what on earth are you talking about?" He questioned, but Usagi shrugged him off and tried to get up again.

"I have to talk to Harry, Lee, this is really important." She protested, only to be pulled down again.

"So is your health and until I know what happened to you I don't want you running around after him, of all people." Lee said flatly. Usagi opened her mouth to make an angry comment, but Madam Pomfrey cut her off, apparently tired of being the spectator.

"The boy's quite right, you don't need to go anywhere at the moment. What happened to you?" The nurse asked sternly. Usagi looked from Lee's face to Madam Pomfrey's and sighed in defeat.

"I don't know. I got this really weird tingling feeling while I was sitting in Divination, and then it felt like my whole head had just been sawed in half. Memories played through my head and when I got back to normal, I..." She paused, looked up at the nurse, and then over at Lee apprehensively. "I woke up here. It must have been some kind of nightmare or something." She finished lamely.

"Usagi—

"But anyways, I really have to find Harry right now so if Lee goes with me than I should be fine and I'll come straight back, alright?" Usagi paused briefly, looked at Madam Pomfrey expectantly, and then continued. "Great, thank you so much. Come on Lee." The blonde latched onto Lee's arm and dragged him out of the room with her before Madam Pomfrey could get a word in edgewise. They were well down the hall before Lee came to his senses and stopped her.

"Hey now, I know you made up that story back there. Tell me what really happened." Lee insisted.

"Sorry, I just didn't want to spill to Madam Pomfrey and cause any uproar. After the whole memory thing, I came to in this really strange room. There was a huge snake curled up on the floor with a chair sitting next to it and some other guy blubbering in the corner. Voldemort was in that chair, Lee. He said that he took over me during all those trance things, and he said that he was going to kill me and Harry." Her eyes were glassy with tears at this point but she tried to blink them away.

"He said I was weak, and I know that he's right. I couldn't protect my friends from him and I can't protect Harry from him either."

"Whoa now, backtrack, you're falling right into his trap." Lee interrupted. "This is exactly what he wanted you to do, right? Convince yourself that you couldn't win so he'd have the advantage. You're stronger than you think you are, he's just trying to play mind games."

"Th-that's what I told him, but--" Usagi began, wiping tersely at her eyes.

"But nothing, now do you really have to find Harry?" Lee asked with a frown. Usagi blinked, momentarily confused, and then raised an eyebrow.

"Why all the hostility towards Harry," She asked.

"Let's just say we had a disagreement. Now, do you really have to find him or not?" Lee went on.

"Um...yes, I do, it's really important." Usagi nodded, shaking off Lee's blatant grudge towards the boy in question. Lee sighed.

"Fine, we'll find him then."

"Um...Harry." Usagi said quietly, tapping said boy on the shoulder. He jumped and turned to face her, green eyes wide with shock. The shock quickly evolved into confusion.

"What do you want?" He asked curtly. Usagi bit down on her bottom lip as she felt the eyes of Hermione and Ron on her as well as Harry's. Her hands tangled together behind her back as she looked at the floor. This deep feeling of discomfort in the presence of someone she knew well was very foreign to her, and she didn't like it at all, nor did she know what to do.

"I need to talk to you. Alone." She added, glancing over at Lee. His arms were crossed and he was frowning, almost scowling. She smiled apologetically and turned back to Harry for an answer. The black-haired boy blinked several times, as though caught off guard, and slowly nodded.

"Okay." He said, and then blinked again like he was just as disoriented as the blonde before him. After several minutes of staring, he realized that he should've been off the couch already and sprang to his feet. The two looked at each other again before Usagi took the initiative to head out of the Gryffindor commons, leaving Harry to follow behind her. Harry shared a heated glance with Lee before he did so, and the two didn't stop until they'd gotten well away from their starting point.

Slowly, Usagi turned on her heel and faced Harry head on. He was surprised by the fear and confusion they held as they traveled over his face. Realizing the awkward silence around them, Usagi cleared her throat and decided to initiate the conversation.

"Um...look Harry, I'm sorry." She began, taking a deep breath. Already her throat tightened with emotion, this was getting more difficult by the second.

"If that's all you have to say then I don't want to hear it." Harry snapped, moving to leave.

"Harry wait! Just listen to me, please, for a few minutes. This is hard." Her voice cracked, and she couldn't hold it in any longer. The stress of it all broke through her emotional barriers and the tears spilled down her cheeks. Harry gulped; he didn't expect a breakdown. "I didn't mean it, Harry. I did come to Hogwarts because I was told to protect you. I did keep it a secret from you all this time. I told you about me, Harry, everything that I've been hiding from the world, from my parents, and from just about everybody. It wasn't easy to tell the story of all my friends dying all over again, to relive it, but I did. You know that my protectors were bound by a contract of loyalty to the throne to protect me with their lives too, but that's not why they stayed by my side through so many battles. They did it because they were my friends, my best friends, and it's the same with me and you.

"I didn't become your friend because I had to, I became your friend because I wanted to. I will protect you and I will fight Voldemort with you, because you're my friend and I care about you whether you like it or not." Usagi stopped. Chest heaving, she felt sure that her heart would beat out of her at any moment. Dabbing at her eyes with her sleeve, she didn't even dare spare a glance towards Harry. He could've walked away by now and she wouldn't know. Even her knees trembled beneath her as she waited, hoping for forgiveness.

"It wasn't your fault." The murmured words came so quietly that Usagi barely heard them over the ringing in her ears. Once they registered, her breathing stopped and she looked up at Harry with her wide blue eyes. "I mean, I overreacted and, um, I'm sorry for being such a prat and all." He continued, looking rather nervous himself.

"You're serious?" Usagi questioned slowly, not sure what to think. He'd completely snuffed her earlier and now he was apologizing? Harry smiled a sideways sort of grin and nodded.

"Serious as a heart attack." He said, and Usagi rolled her eyes.

"How clever of you," She laughed. Harry laughed with her, and they both breathed an inward sigh of relief that the whole escapade of apologizing to each other was over. After a moment of laughter, Usagi suddenly remembered why she'd wanted to find Harry in the first place. Sometimes she thought her mind was slipping away from her.

"Harry, er, I wanted to ask you something else. I had this weird dream thing and I was wondering if maybe you had a similar one." Usagi explained, though not very well as Harry raised his eyebrows with absolutely no grasp on what she meant. "Voldemort was in it." Then suddenly, the memory of the dream he'd had in Divination came back to him and with it the follow up of waking to Usagi's screams as she passed out on the classroom floor.

"You had the same dream?" He asked grimly, looking anxious.

"Well, not the same exact I'm sure, because he was speaking directly to me. There was this huge snake on the floor and some guy crying in the corner." Usagi elaborated, trying to express the dream the best she could.

"Nagini and Wormtail," Harry almost gasped, his eyes widening considerably. Usagi blinked, and then shrugged, not really sure whether this was true or not. Voldemort never mentioned the two while they were conversing, and she'd forgotten about them almost instantly once the dark lord started talking to her. "He didn't talk to me at all, but right before I woke up he said 'she's coming now'. I'm guessing he meant you?"

"I guess so. It's kind of scary; I'm worried about you participating in the third task. It seems like the perfect time and place for something to go wrong." Usagi said apprehensively.

"I don't see how they could pull of anything during such an event, especially right under Dumbledore's nose." Harry replied. Usagi stilled looked incredulous.

"I would've agreed with you at the beginning of the year, before some unknown bewitched the Goblet into entering you in the tournament right under Dumbledore's nose. He's a wise and powerful wizard, but he isn't all-knowing." Usagi argued. "All I'm saying is try to be careful. You know, like Moody would say, 'CONSTANT VIGILANCE!'" Harry jumped as she shouted, and she burst out laughing. He grinned and shook his head.

"Alright, but I still think you're worried over nothing." He said.

"We shall see."

Well, well... given this chapter is short, but it's leading up to next chapter which will be the final chapter, unless I write an epilogue or something. That's right, it's the THIRD TASK! -dun dun dun- Okay, I'm a loser.

-stares at the review count starry eyed- Almost broke 300, I'm so excited. Squee! Review!

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